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TWNW Special: What to Read This Summer 2024 (Replay)


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This special episode of The World Next Week features a summerlong feast of reading, watching, and listening treats. Deborah Amos, the Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence at Princeton University and a former international correspondent for National Public Radio, joins CFR’s TWNW hosts Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins to discuss good reads they recommend, books they are looking forward to reading, and other entertainment they are enjoying this summer.

 

Mentioned on the Podcast

 

Bob’s Picks

 

Elizabeth Kolbert, H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z 

 

Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European



Carla’s Picks

 

Steve Coll, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

 

Peter Pomerantsev, How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler 



Deborah’s Picks

 

Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

 

Nathan Thrall, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy 



Additional Books, Films, Podcasts, Shows and More Mentioned on the Podcast

 

Books

 

Russell Baker, Growing Up

 

Ron Chernow, Grant 

 

Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

 

Roy Stewart, The Places In Between

 

Films

 

Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel

 

James Bridges, The China Syndrome

 

George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck.

 

Alex Garland, Civil War 

 

Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday

 

Roland Joffé, The Killing Fields

 

Richard Linklater, Hit Man

 

Sidney Lumet, Network

 

Alan J. Pakula, All the President's Men

 

Peter Weir, The Year of Living Dangerously

 

Podcasts

 

Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart, The Rest is Politics, Goalhanger


Jon Ronson, Things Fell Apart, BBC Radio 4

 

Television Shows

 

Jez Scharf, Bodkin 

 

David Simon, The Wire

 

Aaron Sorkin, The Newsroom

 

Other

 

The Reckoning Project

 

Watch the U.S. Stall on Climate Change for 12 Years,” Vox

 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw-special-what-read-summer-2024 

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